This research study breaks new ground in exploring differences in how managers' reflection patterns, do or do not differ across levels of adult development as delineated by Robert Kegan's Constructive-Developmental Theory. It was a basic qualitative study exploring upper-level managers' thought processes and patterns of reflection in revisiting…

The purpose of this qualitative research was to describe and analyze the ways in which newly inducted supervisors (in the first three years of their work) tasked with clinical supervision, cognitive coaching, and similar forms of developmental instructional supervision were engaged in a "reflective dialogue" between their supervisory…